Carved wooden ancestral figure of female

Made:
1890-1930 in Cote dIvoire
Carved wooden ancestral figure of female

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Carved wooden ancestral figure of female
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Carved wooden ancestral figure of female, standing erect with hands clutching navel, Baule tribe Ivory Coast, West African, 1890-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A192008
Materials:
wood
type:
statues
credit:
Sothebys